Logo final candidates?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu May 25 12:31:58 EDT 2006


Quoting "John P. New" <jnew at hazelden.ca>:

> I just clued in to the fact that on a splash screen with the word GNU
> and GNU symbols all over the place and displayed as part of software
> released under the GPL, we use the words "Open Source" in two places, in
> the "tag line" and on the credit card issued by the "International Bank
> of Gnu" (should that be "GNU"?).

It's "GnuCash", so....  No.

> Shouldn't we make references instead to "Free Software"? Not to start a
> political debate, but I think it's important to distinguish between the
> two. Besides, we wouldn't want RMS to get upset.

No.  RMS will do what RMS will do, and I don't think that we need to
bow down to his wishes.  He's really no more special than anyone else.
He just happens to be more vocal, that doesn't make him more correct.

Followups to /dev/null, please.

-derek

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